Simple plotting

[Leeann Liang Fu]

Hello,
        I've been poking around quite a bit in the documentation trying to
find a way to simply plot x vs. y and have the observerswarm display an
updated plot at each time step.  Everything I've looked at seems to only
let me plot a statistic over time.  I haven't found a graph class that
will let me choose the independent variable, they all just use time as the
independent variable. 
        The closest thing I've found in the archives of this mailing list
is included below.  Since I didn't find a response to this message, I'm
guessing that plotting over something other than time can't easily be
done in Swarm.  I'm hoping that someone will tell me otherwise.

Thanks,
Leeann 


> BLTGraph tools suggestion
> 
> Rick Riolo (address@hidden)
> Thu, 24 Apr 1997 13:48:36 -0400 (EDT) 
> 
> It occurred to me that if the BLTGraph tools (and friends)
> were not tied to a Swarm (i.e., didn't automatically assume
> a Swarm would be running and a getCurrentTime() would work)
> then those graphs might be generally useful for non-Swarm programs
> (or for use in Swarm when a clock is not ticking, so to speak...
> for example to plot some data pre-collected in a file or some
> such, as a result of a user button action).
> 
> So...my suggestion is to somehow make the BLTGraph tools
> not be so tightly tied to the Swarm clock.
> For example, just as the lines being plotted
> are set up via specifying methods to call to get values,
> could the source of the horizontal axis (time)
> also be controlable by specifying some method?
> 
> - r
> 
> Rick Riolo address@hidden
> Program for Study of Complex Systems (PSCS)
> 1061 Randall Lab University of Michigan
> Ann Arbor MI 48109-1120
> http://pscs.physics.lsa.umich.edu/PEOPLE/rlr-home.html
> 
> 



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